Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23).
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Introduction -- A brief reading list -- Map -- Herodotus. From Book I: Lydia -- From Book II: The antiquity of Egypt/The Nile flood/Manners and customs/Origins of the Greek Gods/The truth about the Trojan War/The building of the pyramids -- From Book VII: The Persian War after Marathon -- From Book VIII: The Persian War after Marathon (continued). Thucydides. From Book I: The beginnings -- From Book II: The funeral oration of Pericles/The plague in Athens -- From Book III: The Mitylenian debate/Sedition in Corcyra -- From Book VI: The war in Sicily -- From Book VII: The Sicilian disaster. Xenophon: The Anabasis. From Book I -- From Book II -- From Book III -- From Book IV. Polybius. From Book I: Introduction -- From Book II: Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaean League -- From Book VI: The Roman Constitution.
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Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"-Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.